Chocolates and Mints

Amber has spent a long time making her life look simple.

Careful. Controlled. Quiet enough to stay safe on campus. She knows how to keep her distance, how to avoid trouble, and how to ignore the past lessons that taught her to keep her guard up.

Veer makes that impossible.

He is not loud trouble. He is worse.

He's the clinical, restrained athlete who waits at the edge of the room. The kind that looks at her like he already knows something she doesn't. The kind that turns a locked room, a simple jersey, and a passing glance into a question she can't stop asking herself.

They were never meant to matter to each other. Never meant to become a mistake that feels too good to resist.

But some people don't enter your life all at once. Some of them arrive slowly, quietly, over months of quiet friction-until one day you realize they have already changed everything

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